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Paramount took Star Trek Into Darkness to Japan for a little promotion, unveiling the new movie poster as well as introducing Benedict Cumberbatch with director J.J. Abrams and returning star, Chris Pine.

The images come from the Daily Mail which notes that the regular trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness will run with non-IMAX viewings of The Hobbit, something previously rumored.

Nine minutes of IMAX Star Trek Into Darkness will run with The Hobbit IMAX as well on December 14th.

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Star Trek Into Darkness has a May 17th, 2013 release date in 3D, is directed by J.J. Abrams and stars Chris Pine as Capt. James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Karl Urban as Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Zoe Saldana as NyotaUhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Anton Yelchin as PavelChekov, John Cho as HikaruSulu and Benedict Cumberbatch as an unnamed villain.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.